SAVING ON FERT - DEALING WITH CHILLS - INSTALLING BARGAIN BOUGHT GPS!! 

Great to hear Moodini getting a mention😀. Brilliant video as always👏

I gave the thumbs up when you came clean about dropping the washers and nuts x the times you did. Truth and Solidarity. I like it.

You are a hoot! I love your wit and chuckled my way through this video. It is refreshing to see you embrace technology. I hope the GPS becomes your friend in the field.

Great video like always Adrian, I am also a Massey man, I work on a farm in Wexford that has a Massey Ferguso 5470 and a 5610, both with front loaders. Also, I bought an EZ Guide 250 around 15 months ago and it is working like a dream for spreading fertiliser. So, best of luck to you with your EZ Guide 250. Charlie

The drone video was great of the tractors at work. Hope your GPS works well for you. Thanks for taking us along. Have a great day!

Nothing like a bit of help to guide you in the right direction 😄. Good work. Stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Nice how you had the sound from the tractor playing when you could see the view from the drone! If you know what I mean. 👍

Your straight talking attitude is just brilliant Adrian, plenty of others would of jumped at the chance to get whatever they could but you did your own thing. Hope it serves you well. Enjoy both yourself and 10th generation Farmer for them same reasons. Keep it up 👍🏼

I never realised so much went into it 🙌👍

Great content as always Adrian. It’s amazing how technology has changed in tractors down through the years. Your a sound guy

Love all the trees around your farm Adrian a lot of farmers dont get the credit for all the biodiversity thats around the farm 👍

For rust treatment on farm machines we use rust converter from würth is good stuff we use it on our tractors and does the job

Top man Adrian, always look forward to the weekly updates on the farm. See you after

Hello from Moosomin, Saskatchewan, Canada great videos thanks for sharing

Field Navigator app is a basic system suitable for all small farmers. Allows you to save fields and save each work done. Also allows you to set the effective width of the implement you are using.

We drilled a few bits of timber around the top of of the spreader so it holds two big bags a lot more comfortable and got a cover for the spreader from clonmel covers which is great job

The other system you were talking about is onTrak by agricision and it’s a lot cheaper to buy new than a Trimble. We love ours and you don’t need a screen as it just runs in your phone or iPad which is part of the reason it’s so cheap. Having used both the agricision is easier to use as it’s out on the bonnet where you’re already looking however the Trimble will be more accurate and do more things as the onTrak only does straight A/B lines but that’s just what you pay for also no installation with the agricision system so can be moved to literally any tractor or even a quad

Fair play to you Adrian, always the perfectionist, a pleasure watching your channel 👍.

Intelligence is what you do when you don't know what to do, and you have that, Adrian, don't put yourself down, you are a very intelligent man. Keep up the educational, entertaining work mate.

When you are finished watching it you should I let it dry and spray light hydraulic oil over it helps it to stop it from rusting

Sprinkling white gold, may the bank manager be with you,

With any luck the GPS will save you half a bag of fert next year and will have paid for itself

Excellent production and presentation Adrian,great work👍Much better than RTE😁🐄🚜

You're correct Adrian, They're Trimble units, Perfect as a basic unit for guidance.

Well adrian we had tha problem with our old sower and dad was not fit to get in to spreed it about so we got a rauch mds it has not splits in here it is a gr8 job

Ok I have this system with a few years. A few points 1. I use it mainly for fertilizer and spraying (90% and 10% respectively) 2. Mixed emotions on it tbh. She will take a few minutes to connect every time you turn off the ignition or power it down(even after updates). I just plan around that so that when I leave the yard I am switched on and then I’m not really waiting long after I’m through the gap. 3.The biggest issue by far I have with it is that in a few “special” paddocks for whatever reason it will go mad. By that I mean it just seems unable to get a good signal no matter the weather or conditions. What’s odd about is that many of our fields are surrounded by ditches but some of the open ones are the worst culprits. Spreading fertilizer at 19k revs(D2 in NH TM120)it is often just at the limit of its capability to keep a decent connection. That will mean 2 things….number 1: it will occasionally line up that though on screen you are driving along the correct guidance if you look at your previous track you will notice you are nearer that you should be just using eyeball and experience. This mostly happens after spreading the headland and just starting the up and downs, number 2 and by far the biggest pain of the entire system….if you turn at the headlands or just make a slightly sharp turn it will sometimes grow haywire for a few seconds and put completed tracks all around the on screen field at all sorts of odd angles. No way around that and I have no advice just to use experience and gut to carry on with the rest of that field as you can’t really go by the screen until you finish the field and reset it. 4. Someone else commented about screen placement more in front of you. Agree totally, there is enough going on spreading fertilizer that you should not be really looking to the side. Just my opinion on that.

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what a great video it reminds me when I was working on a dairy farm now I work with turkeys AIING every day.

Beautiful vid thank you Adrian.

Love the honesty measure 3 times then eyeballed it.😃😃

Dairy farmer from New Zealand here, just found your channel and have been binge watching it, awesome content, we have a similar gps system to what your using, we were able to upload a map of our farm to it, which makes it very handy when spreading or drilling seed in specific paddocks, Cant wait to see future content,

Great run tru on fitting the GPS great savings to be made on spreading(sowing!)the fertiliser getting man in to spread with a GPS for the big spreads (silage first round) saves a lot of bag stuff good move watch out if offered the second hand one a lot of gps systems being stolen down south lately take it out of your tractor if you are not using it just in case

Hello Adrian hope all is well with you the farm looks great it shows all the hard work you put in to keep it that way thanks for your videos for our entertainment take care Gerry

Great video as always 👍

Hi Adrian. Great video. I have the trimble 500 with a long long time. They're basically the same. See how you get on with the patch antenna first. To be honest the right antenna is an ag15. I have one on two different tractors. More accurate and reliable. If its going amber alot it will put you off and drive you crackers. However it will go amber under trees, on the road and inside farm buildings. They are a brilliant job though and you'll eventually totally rely on it. One tip. If spraying, enter the width of the sprayer correct, e.g 40ft, but then enter an overlap of say 12 or 20 inches. This way if you wobble a bit the yellow will show you that you still have it sprayed. No need to do that with the fertiser spreader. Also, headland on the menu will measure the field for you after you've completed the first round of the field. If you use A B it's perfect for guidance but just won't measure the field.. Message me on anything else but John at vantage is a good guy at all of the tips too I'm sure. Well wear and happy motoring with it. Ps it was cheap at that kind of money. A tonne of fertiser would be nearer the mark 😜. Regards Dave Flynn, Cork

Great video! When you said you just eyeballed it I nearly died with laughter because I just recognised myself there for a while 😂

Thank you for sharing.

Hi Adrian. Have the same GPS. They are good for fertiliser and even better for spraying. If mounting the gps to a second tractor get a second mounting ball to fix to the tractor. Used one here made from a golf ball with a bolt through for a while.

Just be careful when spraying on slopes Adrian. The antenna can be well over .5m out when the tractor is working on a side slop. I mounted my antenna on the front weights which works a lot better. Thanks for your fine vlogs tey are always a highlight!

I bought a ifarm wefarm hoodie and I love it thanks

You should soil sample your farm periodically for fertility and pH so you know your soils status. Basic GPS are great on livestock farms.

Great video Adrian everything looking good

IFarmWeFarm The Movie 😀👍. Well that was pure entertainment and very informative at the same time. I was impressed as hell with the Drone shots and the overall presentation of this episode, well done Adrian. That GPS will definitely earn its keep once you get the hang of it. Can’t wait for the sequel to this movie don’t keep us waiting lol 😂👍.

Great video as always. I do use a hydraulic top link on the fertiliser spreader and a few quick thrusts in and out will even out and level the last few handfuls of fertiliser.

GPS units need regular updates to refresh their Almanac which gives the unit a starting point to lock on to the GPS constellation and to discard "improbable" readings. Generic GPS patch antenna's should be fine to fit to other tractors.

Also just to keep in mind that a pinch or sharp bend in a coaxial cable can impair the signal strength, so you need to be careful how you route them. Though the software update was more likely the cause of your woes - in fact in April 2019 there was a GPS clock rollover which ended my 10 year old satnav at the time, so I'd imagine that the software version from 2009 would be impacted in some way too.

I used to sell those ez guides 250 when they first came out when I lived in the UK great little guidance System. Was writing this while watching and was going to say ring vantage and ask them about the update file. You can also get the ez steer steering wheel motor to help steer you and you can also upgrade the antenna as well.

Used the same gps system absolutely fantastic bit of kit you’ll love it

Another great video Adrian keep them coming stay safe 👍👍👍👍

Basically set your implement width in the settings and then pull into the field set an A line drive to the other side of the field and set your B line. Hit enter and your done

Trimbles are nice to follow compared to some other makes. Not inclined to be jumping all over the place. Don't get to hung up on trying to have the 3 green lights on the hole time. Once you have one or two you are very good. Also on ground thats uneven if the angle of the cab moves you will loose a light so just keep in the same line and she will come back again. On your headlands turn in when she's about 2.5m away from the next line you will be pretty much bang on, if you leave it to the last minute you will over shoot the line. Try pick your straightest headland to set up from. Even if there is a slight curve just mark up the a,b points from either end and you will be straight on the next run. The curved a,b line is a balls to drive to so wouldn't bother with it.

Don’t worry about drawing AB lines when spreading fertiliser or spraying. Use the paint function for handy paddocks and you’ll use it plenty 👍🏻

I've an easy guide 250 with 10 years . Never updated it 🤪maybe I should . Great bit of kit . Couldn't do without it . Spraying ,fert , opening lands topping and mowing Even find it great spreading watery slurry if it raining . You won't give it back 😉

Them Ez Guide 250's are a great little system my boss has the same system on an old 9380 4wd but its got the electric motor bolted to the steering wheel so it steers automatically for us. Just a tip if you want set yourself an overlap for like 1/2 a foot to 1 foot as i noticed it will wonder side to side a couple inches sometimes, we had a 1ft overlap on a 50ft roller and it worked well

I had to mount the screen on the windscreen. Since Your having to constantly look between it and the field, I found it more user friendly.

Great video. GPS is a great thing to have.

Good luck with the new technology..🥴 What’s that old saying… you can’t teach a old dog new tricks….😉😎

U get navigation apps for you phone to aid seeing where u have been in the field.gps based

👍👍😁Glad the calf is okay 😁 Your shed looks wonderful now that the grass has grown back around it. Our farm when I was a kid was on land like yours. Those hills are pretty intimidating to a kid driving the tractor while the load of bales was being put on. 😱 Manufacturers add so many bells and whistles to farm equipment these days. I admire your sensible nature and I think “simpler is better” i.e. less to go wrong with it.

Good luck with the new GPS system hopefully it will save you loads on fertilizer, chemical and fuel.

Hi Adrian for the rust prevention and protection should try Otraol oil . Albany paint stores are agents for it. It may help in controlling the rust. Otral products pricey but highly rated

Keep up the good work Adrian a thing we do with our guidance on our 24m sprayer for grassland is mount it on a ram suction mount on the windscreen so your guidance line on the screen is straight in front of you to help keep straight if that makes sense then can remounted to the side when not required.

Another enjoyable & interesting video. Good luck with all your farming jobs ahead take care 👍👍👍

Great video today adrienne

God Adrian I had a great laugh when I saw this video , we bought a 6715 last year and we got a Trimble system for it last week , I was thinking about installing it this afternoon , basically we got it because we bought a new fert spreader because our old one was as they say goosed and with the cost etc. It made sense to have some bit of gps but like you we didn't need the auto steer and all the bells and whistles so we just got a big basic gps system off a newholland dealer locally ( probably the exact same as yours as case IH and newholland almost interchangeable ) , hope it will be a help for fert spraying and mowing , time will tell , cost about the price of a ton of can so you got it cheaper than us we were nervous about buying it on the net just because we would rather have a bit of backup if we had problems , felt like shouting snap when I saw the box! We have been doing a lot of reseeding over the last few years and if you don't mind me saying I wonder if that first silage field you showed wouldn't pay for a bit of a freshen up , the modern grasses are so far ahead of what you could get even 10 or 15 years ago you could increase productivity by 25 to 30 percent by just reseeding.

Good morning Adrian, its not easy stopping the rust but a good clean up and some nytomors will hold it back for some time but once it got a grip its got a grip if you know what I mean, the wee sat- nav system looks great and you have made a good job of fitting it, look forward to seeing it in action, the boys at the tractor place sound like a great bunch of guys, I remember when all the places use to be like that but its unfortunately stopping everywhere, any way great video as usual Adrian shows people that farming us not just about smelling of shearing and wearing wellies, good luck to you and your family

Liquid Paraffin, if ever us kids were off colour when we were small…. Mother always gave us a tablespoon full of Liquid Paraffin 🤢 Sorted us out though 😄

Hi Adrian Just a tip when u r done whit th GPS plug it out and the next time u use it it should fire up straight away

Might be worth looking at the bag lifters olly blogs uses that make lifting fert bags safer and easier

Finally a decent brand inside that Massey 🤣

🤣I always read the instructions the way you do!!🤣

I have the OnTrak Agricision gps ( the one that sits on the bonnet) . Very happy with it. Links to your phone or tablet and can be swapped to different tractors easily and you can take it with you for security when not using it. Excellent for mowing and spraying.

Alway's up for a bargain Adrian, sure it will work just fine when you get use to it , if only human's could update as easily as that .

Taking note of you saying the direction of the prevailing wind, I just wondered why you built the shed open side to the weather, by the way I love your vids sensible down to earth views that you have, I’m from the north wales coast, we get the wether after you guys are done with it!

Like you, I’ve just invested in a guidance system but I went for the ontrak system. Only had a couple of jobs with it so far but I can see the advantages already for the cost of fuel, chemicals and time! Good luck with it 👍

Hi Adarin I have 2 of them Trimble 250 there a great gps I only use the paint on the screen u won’t need the light bar u spend to much time watching it if u press the second botton on the left of the screen it work u paint on the gps hope that help u on that u can also get a better receiver for the tractor but what u have is fine out

As all ways great Video Adrian. One tip get your shelf a magnetic tray for your nuts and bolts . It will make your life a lot easier. Any way Good luck . Look forward to the next one .

I think you might need to mount the GPS system on the dash in front of the steering wheel so that your looking directly at it the whole time and not to your left hand side. I don't have much experience with them, just an observation.

Gas man Adrian, always says it as it is, hope the gps works out,,,

Good luck with the gps you will master it

Would have been a nice ending to see the ladies walking out a bit more 😀

Love your videos Adrian Just wondering what speed do you spread the fertilizer at kph

Owatrol products work well for rust ive used it

Hi anuter good video I love your Chanel

Good video Adrian

Good luck with the computer thing not for me but good vid and love moodeaney

Were yeah lonesome after the case 895 after when you started the GPS monitor ? Imagine it is said John Deere 😉 hope you don't roll her trying to follow this gps down them steep hills you have 😅

Hello Adrian, love watching your vlog’s. Have you tried Kurust? It’s made by the same people who make Hammerite. We have had good results on our forage harvest.

Well Adrian how u keeping, like my self farming away hard to beat, great farm, kieran from Laghey donegal town

Adrian do you know anything about calibrating the Dyna6 gear box ?

Wel Aidan, I’ve been making TikToks and I’ve being thinking about a drone. What sort of drone do ya recommend

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Badland antenna (or similar) might be able to help. I don't see why any gos system manufacturer would use an antenna that's unique to them. It'd probably be a matter of matching specifications. I've no idea about cost though, but I'm guessing GPS system manufacturers will charge more, possibly like buying car parts from a main dealer....

Great crop of grass ya have and also good to see your heifer is in good form again

Were did all the tyres go did you get rid of them stay safe

the 5460's fuel gauge was dancing a fair jig, is that being caused by the fuel sloshing around in tank or is it something to do with the electrical side ?

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Great video Adrian, would she work on the 20!

Hey bro,can you be more detailed with your fert,a bag to the acre means nothing.How many kgs per hectare of what NPK.Yes lime is great,just makes the soil sweet and preform better.I use alot here in Aussie

well adrian just saying if you leave the spinner out in the winter she wont rust even if u clean it 100 times leaving her out saves the spreader we seen it ok our ruach